# Rankshift — Credit-metered AI visibility, citation and crawler tracking with unlimited projects and seats. > Source: CitedIndex — https://citedindex.com/rankshift (structured, researched, re-verified) > Facts last verified: 2026-09-30 Rankshift is a Belgian AI search analytics platform that runs your chosen prompts against nine AI engines and reports visibility, share of voice, sentiment, citations and AI crawler activity. It adds a content brief generator, an AI writer and an Action Center of recommendations. | Fact | Value | | --- | --- | | Website | https://www.rankshift.ai | | Price | from €77/month billed monthly, €69/month billed annually | | Free trial | Partly | 30-day free trial, no credit card required, cancellable at any time; no standing free plan exists, and the cheapest paid tier is Starter. Agencies additionally get pitch projects of 1,000 credits that stay active for two weeks. ## What it does **Monitors AI answers** · Yes — Core purpose: it runs your prompts on a schedule across the major answer engines and records whether each answer mentions or cites the brand, rather than relying on manual spot checks. > Rankshift runs the prompts your customers actually ask, across every major AI engine, and shows you where you appear, who beats you, and which sources the models trust. > — https://www.rankshift.ai/ai-visibility-tracking/ · Hero paragraph under the heading '#1 AI visibility tracking tool.' **Optimises your content** · Yes — It names specific existing pages and what to do with them, for example refreshing a pricing page that engines cite often but that is years old, rather than only scoring them. > Rankshift's Action Center turns citation data into recommendations: update this page, pitch this publication, get listed in this comparison article. > — https://www.rankshift.ai/ai-citation-tracking/ · Section 'A citation report you can actually act on' **Generates content** · Yes — An AI content writer is listed as included on every self-serve plan, drafting new articles from the vendor's own analysis of LLM responses and citations. > Rankshift analyzes LLM responses and your citations, connects key concepts to relevant entities, and drafts optimized content designed to perform in answer engines. > — https://www.rankshift.ai/prompt-tracking/ · Plan feature list, 'AI content writer' tooltip (Starter, Professional and Business columns) **Publishes to your site** · No — The enumerated integrations are reporting destinations only, and the content flow ends with the user publishing. > Seamlessly integrate with your existing Looker Studio reports. Other integrations are available, including BigQuery, Power BI, and more. > — https://www.rankshift.ai/prompt-tracking/ · Starter plan feature list, Looker Studio integration item **Done-for-you service** · No — The agency offering is a partner programme for agencies that run the tool themselves on client workspaces, with pitch projects and training, not a done-for-you service delivered by Rankshift staff. > Use Rankshift data to back up your proposals with real market visibility through our unlimited pitch projects. > — https://www.rankshift.ai/agency/ · Section 'From lead to customer', step 1 'Win pitches' ## Answer engines **ChatGPT** · Yes — ChatGPT heads the vendor's engine inventory and the credit calculator prices a ChatGPT run at two credits, so it is available on every self-serve plan. > ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Claude, Google AI Overviews, Google AI Mode, Microsoft Copilot, Mistral, and Meta AI. You can track all of them or only the ones relevant to your market. > — https://www.rankshift.ai/ai-visibility-tracking/ · FAQ, 'Which AI engines does Rankshift track?' **Perplexity** · Yes — Perplexity is named in the engine inventory on both the visibility and citation pages and costs two credits per run in the published calculator. > ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews, Google AI Mode, Claude, Microsoft Copilot, Mistral, and Meta AI. > — https://www.rankshift.ai/ai-citation-tracking/ · FAQ, 'Which AI platforms do you track?' **Gemini** · Yes — Gemini is listed separately from Google AI Overviews and AI Mode, and is selectable in the credit calculator at two credits per run. > ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Claude, Google AI Overviews, Google AI Mode, Microsoft Copilot, Mistral, and Meta AI. > — https://www.rankshift.ai/ai-visibility-tracking/ · FAQ, 'Which AI engines does Rankshift track?' **Google AI Overviews** · Yes — Google AI Overviews is tracked as its own engine, listed separately from Gemini and AI Mode, and the credit calculator prices a run on it at two credits. > ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Claude, Google AI Overviews, Google AI Mode, Microsoft Copilot, Mistral, and Meta AI. > — https://www.rankshift.ai/ai-visibility-tracking/ · FAQ, 'Which AI engines does Rankshift track?' **Google AI Mode** · Yes — Google AI Mode is named as a distinct tracked platform alongside AI Overviews, and the credit calculator offers it as a selectable engine at two credits per run. > ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews, Google AI Mode, Claude, Microsoft Copilot, Mistral, and Meta AI. > — https://www.rankshift.ai/ai-citation-tracking/ · FAQ, 'Which AI platforms do you track?' **Claude** · Yes — Claude is tracked on every plan, but the published calculator charges five credits per run against two for most engines, so it drains a credit pool faster. > ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Claude, Google AI Overviews, Google AI Mode, Microsoft Copilot, Mistral, and Meta AI. > — https://www.rankshift.ai/ai-visibility-tracking/ · FAQ, 'Which AI engines does Rankshift track?' **Microsoft Copilot** · Yes — Microsoft Copilot is covered and, like Claude, is one of the two engines the vendor's calculator prices at five credits per run instead of two. > ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews, Google AI Mode, Claude, Microsoft Copilot, Mistral, and Meta AI. > — https://www.rankshift.ai/ai-citation-tracking/ · FAQ, 'Which AI platforms do you track?' **Grok** · No — Grok is absent from every engine inventory the vendor publishes, including this enumerated FAQ answer, the calculator's complete model selector and both feature-page lists. > With our AI visibility tool, you can track the following models: ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Google AI Overviews, Google AI Mode, Mistral AI, Claude, and Meta AI. > — https://www.rankshift.ai/prompt-tracking/ · FAQ, 'What AI models can I track?' **DeepSeek** · No — DeepSeek appears in none of the vendor's closed engine lists: this eight-model FAQ inventory, the nine-engine calculator selector and both feature-page inventories all omit it. > With our AI visibility tool, you can track the following models: ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Google AI Overviews, Google AI Mode, Mistral AI, Claude, and Meta AI. > — https://www.rankshift.ai/prompt-tracking/ · FAQ, 'What AI models can I track?' **Meta AI** · Yes — Meta AI closes the nine-engine inventory at two credits per run; the plan tooltips call the same engine 'Llama (Meta)', so naming differs between pages. > ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Claude, Google AI Overviews, Google AI Mode, Microsoft Copilot, Mistral, and Meta AI. > — https://www.rankshift.ai/ai-visibility-tracking/ · FAQ, 'Which AI engines does Rankshift track?' **Coverage in the vendor’s words** · Yes — Nine engines are published, with no per-tier engine restriction: every plan says 'Track all LLMs', and the limit is credits rather than coverage, with Claude and Copilot costing five credits a run instead of two. > We support ChatGPT, Gemini, AI Overviews, AI Mode, Claude, Perplexity, Mistral, and Llama (Meta). > — https://www.rankshift.ai/prompt-tracking/ · Plan feature list, 'Track all LLMs' tooltip ## What it reports **Names the cited sources** · Yes — It records the exact cited URL rather than only the domain, with the prompt, model and date, plus first-seen, last-seen and citation-stability history for each source. > Rankshift logs every URL they cite for the prompts you care about, shows you where your own pages land, and turns the gaps into a list of pages to write, fix, or pitch. > — https://www.rankshift.ai/ai-citation-tracking/ · Hero paragraph under 'AI citation tracking' **Competitor tracking** · Yes — Named competitors are benchmarked on every tracked prompt for visibility, share of voice and sentiment, and you can filter to sources that cite them but not you. > Yes. Add the competitors you care about and Rankshift benchmarks your visibility, share of voice, and sentiment against theirs on every prompt. > — https://www.rankshift.ai/ai-visibility-tracking/ · FAQ, 'Can I track competitors?' **Brand sentiment** · Yes — A dedicated Brand Perception module groups positive and negative themes per AI model and lets you drill into the underlying responses, on top of a numeric sentiment score from -10 to +10. > Brand Perception maps out which themes and associations AI models link to your brand. This way, you know not only whether people speak positively or negatively about you, but also exactly what they're saying (and per AI model). > — https://rankshift.featurebase.app/en/help/articles/0667713-brand-perception · Article introduction, 'Brand Perception' **Recommendations** · Yes — Findings are issued as prioritised, assignable tasks on a board tied to specific pages and publications, so it goes past reporting into a work queue the team can clear. > When something needs attention, it turns up as a concrete task, not a vague red number. > — https://www.rankshift.ai/ai-visibility-tracking/ · Section 'How it works', step 3 'Read the results, then act' **AI crawler analytics** · Yes — Crawler analytics is listed on all three self-serve plans and reports which AI bots hit which pages, how often, and with what errors, in real time. > Track when AI models crawl your website, which pages are cited most often, and when your content is used for training in real time. > — https://www.rankshift.ai/prompt-tracking/ · Plan feature list, 'Crawler analytics' tooltip **Wrong answers about you** · Partly — It surfaces negative themes per model and the reasoning behind them, but the vendor's own workflow puts the judgement of what is false on the user rather than flagging factual errors itself. > Identify which negative themes are incorrect or outdated > — https://rankshift.featurebase.app/en/help/articles/0667713-brand-perception · Step 4 'Adjusting your brand perception', numbered item 1 ## Plans and signing up **Prompt or credit allowance** · Yes — Each plan states both a daily prompt ceiling and a monthly credit pool: Starter 150 prompts/day and 9,500 credits, Professional 350 and 22,000, Business 850 and 53,000, with runs costing two to five credits per engine. > 150 prompts / day > — https://www.rankshift.ai/pricing/ · Starter plan card, feature list **Projects or brands** · Yes — Every plan carries unlimited projects and unlimited seats, with credits rather than brand count as the constraint, and agencies get unlimited pitch projects of 1,000 credits each. > Create as many projects as you want and decide how your credits are distributed. > — https://www.rankshift.ai/prompt-tracking/ · Plan feature list, 'Unlimited projects / websites' tooltip **Countries** · Yes — Unlimited countries and languages on every plan; credits are what you spend across markets. > Starts at €69/month for the Starter plan billed annually, which includes 150 prompts with daily tracking, unlimited projects and users, and unlimited countries and languages. > — https://www.rankshift.ai/blog/best-peec-ai-alternatives/ · Rankshift entry, Pricing paragraph **How often it checks** · Yes — Cadence is set per prompt and drives credit burn: the plan rows promise daily or weekly refresh, while the calculator sells frequencies from once weekly up to daily. > You choose per prompt: daily or weekly. Daily makes sense for high-stakes prompts and fast-moving categories. Weekly is plenty for spotting trends and costs fewer credits. > — https://www.rankshift.ai/ai-visibility-tracking/ · FAQ, 'How often does the data update?' **Card required to start** · No — The vendor states no card is needed to begin the 30-day trial and that it can be cancelled at any time, with setup claimed at two minutes. > No Credit Card Needed Cancel Anytime Setup in 2 minutes > — https://www.rankshift.ai/ · Hero, line beneath the '30-Day Trial, It's Free' button **Self-serve signup** · Yes — All three published tiers register and pay in the dashboard with no sales contact, and the trial starts without a card; only Enterprise routes through 'Talk to Sales'. > You can use Rankshift for free during a 30-day trial period. > — https://www.rankshift.ai/prompt-tracking/ · FAQ, 'Is there a free trial available?' ## Access and integrations **API** · Yes — A REST API with per-project bearer tokens is listed on all three self-serve plans, though the citation page instead says API access starts on Professional, so the entry tier is contradicted. > Integrate with our REST API. Discover the tables available in your project, then query measures and dimensions for your own dashboards, scripts and workflows. > — https://www.rankshift.ai/integrations/ · Section 'REST API' **MCP server** · Yes — An MCP server lets an assistant such as Claude or ChatGPT query your own tracking data in plain language; it is listed on every self-serve plan and documented in five help articles. > Link your AI chat with your Rankshift data. Ask about visibility, competitors, sources, citations and sentiment in plain language, and get answers based on your own tracking data. > — https://www.rankshift.ai/integrations/ · Section 'MCP server' **BI export** · Yes — Data is exposed over a standard PostgreSQL connection, so Looker Studio, BigQuery, Power BI, Tableau, Metabase, Superset, Qlik Sense and ThoughtSpot all connect with account credentials. > Each one connects through a standard PostgreSQL connection, with the connection details in your account under Integrations. > — https://www.rankshift.ai/integrations/ · Section 'BI and reporting tools' ## Coverage elsewhere | Source | Kind | Read | | --- | --- | --- | | thatmarketingbuddy.com | Independent source | 2026-08-23 | | nathanojaokomo.com | Independent source | 2026-08-23 | | sourceforge.net | Review platform | 2026-08-23 | | slashdot.org | Independent source | 2026-08-23 | ## CitedIndex in AI answers 0 of 4 answers cite CitedIndex. | Engine | Result | Question | Asked on | Other sources | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | ChatGPT | Does not cite CitedIndex | Rankshift alternatives | 2026-10-12 | scalenut.com, itechguides.com, linkedin.com, xseek.io, blog.hubspot.com, buriedagency.com | | Claude | Does not cite CitedIndex | Rankshift alternatives | 2026-09-04 | llmpulse.ai, xseek.io, aipeekaboo.com, okara.ai | | Gemini | Does not cite CitedIndex | Rankshift alternatives | 2026-09-04 | xseek.io, chosenly.com, sourceforge.net, position.digital, serps.io, aiclicks.io | | Perplexity | Does not cite CitedIndex | Rankshift alternatives | 2026-10-12 | okara.ai, xseek.io, foglift.io, rankshift.ai, llmpulse.ai | ## What changed - 2026-09-30 — Capabilities · Free tier · Price - 2026-09-02 — Capabilities · Free tier - 2026-09-01 — Capabilities · Free tier - 2026-08-31 — Capabilities · Free tier · Price ## Corrections If you represent Rankshift, or anything here is wrong or out of date, send a correction with a source. 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